:Draft:Philip Atiba Solomon

Solomon grew up in Philadelphia. He earned an AB from Harvard University in 1999 in Afro-American studies.{{cite web |url=https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190919/109952/HHRG-116-JU00-Bio-AtibaGoffP-20190919.pdf |title=Phillip Atiba Goff, PhD Curriculum Vita |work=US House of Representatives |year=2019 |access-date=April 22, 2021 }} He received an MA in 2001 in Social Psychology and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 2005.

Solomon is the son of Edwin L. Goff, a Villanova University associate dean, and Florence Withers Goff{{Cite web |last=Russ |first=Valerie |date=2022-05-30 |title=Edwin L. Goff, retired Villanova University associate dean and director of honors program, has died at 76 |url=https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/edwin-goff-obituary-villanova-university-honors-program-20220530.html |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=https://www.inquirer.com |language=en}}.

Solomon has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government{{Cite news |last=Meagher |first=Tom |date=May 18, 2016 |title=The lack of information about policing is criminal |url=http://www.newsweek.com/lack-hard-data-about-policing-criminal-460488 |work=Newsweek |access-date=December 14, 2016}} and an associate professor of social psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught at Pennsylvania State University between 2004-2005.

Solomon is the Co-founder and CEO of the research center/action organization Center for Policing Equity,{{cite web |url=https://www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty/page/goff | title=Faculty Page |work=UCLA Psychology Department |access-date=24 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314100630/https://www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty/page/goff |archive-date=14 March 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://policingequity.org/about/history |title=History |work=Center for Policing Equity |location=Los Angeles |year=2008 |access-date=April 22, 2021 }} which conducts research with the aim of ensuring accountable and racially unbiased policing in the United States.{{cite magazine |last=Woo |first=Marcus |date=January 21, 2015 |title=How Science Is Helping America Tackle Police Racism |url=https://www.wired.com/2015/01/implicit-bias-police-racism-science/ |magazine=Wired |access-date=September 24, 2016}} CPE is the host of a National Science Foundation-funded effort to collect national data on police behavior, specifically stops and use of force, called the National Justice Database.{{Cite magazine |last=Goff |first=Phillip Atiba |date=August 26, 2014 |title=America's Lack of a Police Behavior Database Is a Disgrace. That's Why I'm Leading a Team to Build One |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/119207/police-behavior-database-why-one-doesnt-exist-and-why-one-soon-will |magazine=The New Republic |access-date=December 14, 2016}} The analytic framework Solomon developed as part of the NJD has been called a potential model for police data accountability nationally.{{Cite news |last=Jervis |first=Rick |date=October 12, 2016 |title=Report on racial disparities among Austin Police could be model for USA |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/10/12/center-policing-equity-austin-report/91969738/ |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=December 14, 2016}} In 2016, a decade after its founding, the Center relocated from UCLA to John Jay.{{cite web |title=Taking On Racial Profiling With Data |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/12/14/370792960/taking-on-racial-profiling-with-data |work=NPR |date=December 14, 2014 |access-date=31 October 2016}}{{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=22 March 2016 |title=U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties Will Move to John Jay College |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/nyregion/ucla-center-on-police-community-ties-will-move-to-john-jay-college.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=24 September 2016}} In 2020, the Center relocated from John Jay to Yale.

Solomon was also a key figure in the founding of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice in 2014 and gave testimony before the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.{{Cite web |title=President's Task Force Hearing on Community Policing |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?324520-1/presidents-task-force-hearing-community-policing |website=C-SPAN |language=en-US |access-date=December 14, 2016}}

In 2025, Solomon wrote a piece "Am I Still Allowed to Tell the Truth in My Class?" in The Atlantic questioning higher education's response to changes in the United States Department of Education policy to cease all funding for programs that "advance DEI or gender ideology” by the Trump administration{{Cite web |last=Solomon |first=Phillip Atiba |date=2025-04-11 |title=Am I Still Allowed to Tell the Truth in My Class? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-administration-academic-freedom/682186/?lctg=6050e5a64c8a1e4095f5670a |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}

In 2008, Solomon, Margaret Thomas, and Matthew Christian Jackson published findings that white undergraduates incorrectly identified black women by sex more than any other race or gender.{{cite journal |last1=Onwuachi-Willig |first1=Angela |authorlink=Angela Onwuachi-Willig |date=18 June 2018 |title=What About #UsToo?: The Invisibility of Race in the #MeToo Movement |url=https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1331&context=faculty_scholarship |journal=Yale Law Journal Forum |volume=128 |page=115 |access-date=11 February 2020}}{{Clarify|reason=What does it mean to misidentify gender by race?|date=August 2020}}

He has published extensively in journals.

Solomon changed his name from Phillip Atiba Goff to Philip Atiba Solomon. He wrote about the reasons for his name change in Time Magazine ("What I Gained When I Gave Up My Father’s Last Name"{{Cite magazine |last=Solomon |first=Phillip Atiba |date=2023-09-01 |title=What I Gained When I Gave Up My Father's Last Name |url=https://time.com/6310031/father-last-name-essay/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}).

In 1999, Solomon co-founded the Oakland, California-based queer hip hop group Deep Dickollective.{{cite web |last=Hix |first=Lisa |date=22 June 2006 |title=Deep Dickollective |url=http://www.sfgate.com/thingstodo/article/Deep-Dickollective-Oakland-gay-hip-hoppers-2494331.php |work=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=24 September 2016}} During his time as a musician in this group, he was known as "Lightskindid Philosopher" or LSP.{{cite web |last=Zarley |first=B. David |date=February 20, 2013 |title=Tim'm West and the masculine mystique |url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/center-on-halsted-tim-m-west-deep-dickollective/Content?oid=8822558 |work=Chicago Reader |access-date=September 24, 2016}}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://policingequity.org/executive-team/phillip-atiba-goff-phd/ Biography] at Center for Policing Equity
• [http://goff.socialpsychology.org/ Solomon's page] on Social Psychology Network
• [https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_phillip_atiba_goff_how_we_can_make_racism_a_solvable_problem_and_improve_policing/footnotes?referrer=playlist-talks_to_help_you_understand_r TED talk in 2019]
• {{Twitter|DrPhilGoff}}
• {{C-SPAN|95991}}

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